I hope that you are able to resist this, over here in USA this has been going on for a long time and it is just another failure to stand together and resist the hegemony of the corporations.  We are about to get a good dose of it here as the post-WWII generation starts to retire and we quickly eat up all the under-funded pensions.  Assuming, and I think there are good reasons for the assumption, that we can oust the Republican party from the Presidency and the Congress over the next couple of elections we will be looking to Europe for ideas.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson